We love best those who are, or act for us, a self we do not wish to be or act out.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Adolescence is like cactus.

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus.

A moment can be left inside the memory of time.

My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

The real subject of autobiography is not one's experience but one's consciousness. Memoirists use the self as a tool.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.